Marta Čermáková

"Levínská Olešnice borders the border area. It was tense there. A kind of memory, which is interesting, is that when they occupied, I remember exactly when the soldiers came, when Munich was on, so how they came back, how they were disbanded, they came home. They were all crying, but they knew it wouldn't have been possible otherwise. So that was kind of the weight of it. Then they were closing the border area and the road just ended next to us, we couldn't go any further. By Stara Paka it was already German, but not all of it, just the station. Just beyond Levínská Olešnica was the border, there were German soldiers guarding it. And when they were making the stakes, marking out the border, there was a farmer at the end of the village who, when he saw that they had taken a piece of his field, thought it was a pity, so he went at night, took out the stakes, and adjusted it a bit to his liking. He didn't want to give them his, and let them have that."